Rose Bowl Game

NEW ORLEANS — When the Huskies walk into Devlin Fieldhouse on Saturday, they will be surrounded by history. It's the ninth-oldest college basketball venue in the country, opened in 1933 and built for $211,000 — money that Tulane University raked in when its football team made it to the Rose Bowl in '32. Over the decades, it has hosted Tulane's basketball and volleyball teams, the New Orleans Buccaneers of the old ABA and a major address by President Gerald Ford, who declared that the Vietnam War was "over as far as America is concerned" just before the fall of Saigon in 1975. President Barack Obama spoke here as a candidate in 2008. The Huskies will...

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